User blog comment:Cpt Crimson/DmC sales way lower than dmc4's/@comment-87.164.161.161-20130216022714

Flamebait much?

Anyway, my honest opinion: This game is a nice change of pace (though I think Capcom would've lost less money if they'd just made it an entirely different game to begin with rather than selling it as a prequel/reboot/alternate universe/whateverthefucktheyrecallingitnow; The "new Dante" is probably what alienated the most fans), but it has its flaws, one of which is no doubt the lack of a "hard" lock-on function. It makes moves like the Stinger needlessly hard to execute, and since two buttons are used for the same function anyway, it wouldn't have been hard to just use one of them for lock-on instead. Still, I'm personally not going to buy this game anytime soon, and I'll rather wait for DMC5. I personally prefer the older games, though the new one certainly has its charms.

Bottom line: while I prefer the older games (DMC3 in particular), DmC has its own charm points. Though if Capcom is stupid enough to try and get away with a DmC2, I will just point and laugh when they cry over all the money they lost later and go play Bayonetta 2 instead.